My spouse, bindershubs, is a computer geek too. He started as a Mac guy but in the 90's when they were at their low he had to go over to the dark side in order to have more employment opportunities.

I'm now dreading the weigh in tomorrow because of the water retention thing. I've been so good this week and yet I'll most likely have to show a freaking GAIN the first week of the challenge. Frustrating but I'll keep powering through it even if I have to be embarassed with a gain.

Bindershubs, however, who has only put in a half-arsed effort will be able to show a very nice loss. I going to whine about how much easier it is for men to lose weight. Okay, whining done. I'm glad he's losing it so I'll just shut up about it now. I suspect he will be increasing his effort in the near future though because we just got his cholesterol test back and it was BAD! The wake up siren has sounded for him. We'll both be going in for fasting cholesterol tests in a few weeks. Hopefully mine is improved a lot since I've had a much better diet for about 9 months now. I was borderline (199) last time I was checked.

One thing to check if she hasn't already would be to make sure that itunes has automatic syncing disabled (there should be an option for that in the preference settings). If she puts a device on there that has music not on the computer, the program will try to make the device resemble what's on the computer... even if that means removing things from the ipod. My best friend was having problems with things "disappearing" from her new ipod touch when she was connecting it to 3 different computers and they were all syncing up with it when it got connected.

Thanks, Somni. I just tried something. My iPod is synced with my desktop computer so I just plugged it into my notebook to see what happens and I got that message about it being able to be synced with only one library at a time. I disabled automatic syncing but all the songs on my iPod are greyed out. I can't do anything with them. The option is to either erase or transfer the purchased songs. Or my sister could always send hers back to me to add more songs, lol.

trekkiegirl

Tell your sister to plug the shuffle into her computer and then do the following:

• Click "cancel" when she gets that message
• Click on the ipod icon so that it shows your ipod options
• Click manually manage songs and video under "options"
• When she does this she will be able to click and drag any music or videos onto her ipod.

The problem is that now she won't be able to sync automatically HOWEVER, she will have your music on her ipod but not on her computer.

Hi folks!

We are having fantastic hot weather right now - it was 25C (high 70s for the Americans) and sunny yesterday! Perfect!

I went out for dinner last night and my food consumption was good - I chose very smartly. However, I drank too much, so that added up. Whoops.

Am going out for lunch today too because we have relatives visiting. I looked at the menu online and I already know what I'm going to order so that I can stay OP.

We're clearing up our apartment so our landlord can show it and we can start packing... I forgot how much of a workout a deep cleaning and packing can be! If I can't get to the gym tomorrow because of the cleaning/packing, I'm planning on 30DSing it or getting out for a quick walk.

Have a great Saturday!

Happy Weekend Team!

So far today I've ran/walked 4 miles and went thru my closet/dressers AGAIN. I've got the cast off clothing in the washer and dryer and when they finish up I'm headed to the consignment shop with them. Hopefully I can find some new capris while I'm there. I now have no capris and only athletic type shorts. I'm keeping only things that fit, this is the last of my XL and lanrger clothing. Most of what I have is a M now, but I did keep some of the stretchy L T-shirts to workout in. And my undies drawer is pathetically empty.

On the same note, I've got 4 bras to give away if anyone can wear them. 3 of them were either never worn or worn only a few times, and I have a Moving Comfort "high impact" sports bra that I wore quite a bit, but it's always been hand washed and air dried. I figure bras are too expensive to just toss in the trash if they don't fit anymore. Here's the list:

Moving Comfort Fiona Sports Bra 40D (black)
http://www.wwsport.com/Running/SKU/7...Fiona+Bra.aspx

Olga 42D Underwire (Butterscotch)
http://www.essentialapparel.com/inde...?CMP=AFC-GBase

Delta Burke 40C Underwire/Lace Overlay - coverts to strapless (Nude)
http://cgi.ebay.com/DELTA-BURKE*REMO...0518165008r193

Camisole with built in shelf bra 2X (Nude) coton/lycra blend - no link available

Anyway, if anyone can use any of these, let me know in a PM (guess I should add first come first serve to be fair), I'd be happy to mail them to you on Monday.

I'm off to check on my laundry.

Thanks, Jacque. I tried it with my notebook but the option you mentioned wasn't listed. I even checked other menus. I didn't see anything about manually managing songs. I'll ask if she sees that option but I didn't. Oh well.

Anyhoo...I did what CruiseCat suggested and the other night I took "before" pics of myself...not easy, I hate having my picture taken. If I see a difference at the end of these 14 weeks, I might have the courage to post them.

Good luck with this week's weigh-in everybody!

That's odd...It's so hard to help when I can't see what is going on. Sorry!!!

That's okay, Jacque! No need to be sorry. I appreciate you trying. No biggie. If she finds it easier to send back to me to download more stuff, that's fine.

Have a good day, everyone!

G'morning! Can't stay, trying to clean house today. My little girl is having her 4th bday party on June 13 so all our relatives we see rarely are coming in. Need to get this place in order!! (Needs it anyway.) So I got the dh on board too and he's cleaning now so Imma go help and when he goes to work I'll continue.

Wait, still gotta post exercise for yesterday. Ok, will run do that now.

Have a great day!!

Hugs!! Selina

Today wasn't as OP as I was hoping, but I was on my feet all day and my legs are burning.
I rewarded myself for my progress with some new dresses and a new phone [which is really shiny and pretty!]
I also got the boutonniere for my date for prom next week.
Blah! This week HAS to go POP! Prom's this upcoming Friday!

I had a bad weekend. Was very busy yesterday. We had a Spring Fling carnival at school which I was in charge of. I had lots of crap to eat but I did run my butt off for about 5 hours so I probably burned off most of that but then I blew it today too. Back on plan tomorrow.

Just have a minute to catch up on the thread. Wanted to say....

Yay for carnival food.... mmmm... me likey (in moderation too of course)
Yay for June 13th birthdays (That's my soon to be 20yr olds bday Selina!)
Hoorah for OP days and double WOOT WOOT for POP days!

Getting ready to take a walk with BF and the freshly bathed dog. Spent yesterday in bed with food poisoning or 24 hour bug of some sort. It was gnarly what ever it was. Trying to get my energy back up now.

Have a good night AND DONT FORGET TO WEIGH IN, BLUESERS!!!!!

Hi everyone,

It was my boyfriend's birthday this weekend so beer, ice cream and restaurant food were consumed. It's funny, I only ate about 1900 calories on his bday Saturday when we went out to eat twice and drinking (Wow!!). But yesterday on our lazy day at home, I ate over 2000. Ugh. I was really active Saturday but Sunday... not so much.

No loss or gain this week. I'm disappointed but hopefully I can catch up to where I want to be for next week.

I've been really diligently sticking to my workouts--I got "My Fitness Coach" for Wii and I love it.. except each 30 min work out only burns about 100 calories and I feel like I'm really working hard those 30 mins!

dixied, I love getting rid of too-big clothes! And fitting into the small stuff I've been saving. I'm wearing this little cropped jacket today that I bought a couple years ago and never really was able to wear until about two weeks ago. It's a little snug still but my bf tells me it looks fine.. and he's generally pretty honest.

Have a good week everyone!